Screening of work by Marsden's own multi-award-winning animation company Fettle is a multi-award-winning animation production company, just coming in to its tenth year. Their work includes children's television, music videos, charity and business promotions, and animations about social issues. They've been twice BAFTA nominated, won 6 Royal Television Society Awards, a Sandford St Martin's Children's […]
Join a network of small groups across Kirklees discussing ideas around climate change and influence decision-makers locally and globally. Our planet is heating up, reaching dangerous levels. Polluted air, water and land impacts on every living thing. Political and business leaders are talking about climate change and campaigners are working hard to influence decisions. How […]
HLF has announced that the Amanda Owen event will go ahead on the afternoon of 12 December in Marsden Mechanics, 3pm - 4pm. All existing tickets remain valid. If you would prefer a refund, please send your name and details of your tickets to info@huddlitfest.org.uk This event is sold out and HLF is not currently expecting to […]
Agenda and Papers
Join Rob Vincent in the historic Marsden Mechanics Hall for a talk based on his book 'Colne Valley: A History of a Pennine Landscape'. This book is a tribute to the visual strengths of the Colne Valley’s landscape and a narrative of its development. It is inspired by the author’s experience of living for over […]
Join Tim Taylor for the launch of his second poetry collection, LifeTimes, published by Maytree Press. There will also be a short open mic. Tim Taylor writes fiction and poetry. He has published two novels, Zeus of Ithome and Revolution Day, with Crooked Cat, and a poetry collection, Sea Without a Shore, with Maytree Press; […]
Join Marsden regulars Amanda Huggins and Sarah Linley as they read extracts from their latest books, live in Marsden Library. Amanda Huggins is the author of the novellas All Our Squandered Beauty and Crossing the Lines, as well as five collections of short stories and poetry. She has won numerous awards, including two Saboteur Awards […]
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Join historian of English Cricket, Duncan Stone, for a fascinating discussion of the social and cultural machinations of sport, the concept and application of amateurism and who, exactly, gets to define the form, function and meaning of sport. This is history from the bottom up - just the thing for Yorkshire Day. FREE Book Online, […]